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Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of…
Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funerall sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.
London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652
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Sermon 14: XIII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 20. 1651.
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3. To manifest that Jesus Christ was the second Adam, and came into the world to repair the breaches which the sin of the first Adam had made. For by the fall we did not only contract upon our selves the guilt of Adams sin, to take off which we have need of the righteousness of Christ imputed, but we have drawn upon our selves the filthiness and pollution of sin, to take away the power whereof, only the grace, holiness, and inherent righteousness of Christ imputed to us doth avail: and as the first Adam was the Author and conveyer both of the guilt, filthiness, and punishments of sin to his posterity; so Jesus Christ the second Adam conveys the life of grace into all his. As the first Adam was the author to communicate natural life, as he was made a living soul; 1so the second Adam did communicate the spiritual life of grace as he was made a quickening spirit. From the first Adam by natural generation and propagation, we receive corruption for corruption; so from the second Adam we receive grace for grace.
3. To manifest that Jesus Christ was the second Adam, and came into the world to repaire the breaches which the sin of the first Adam had made. For by the fall we did not only contract upon our selves the guilt of Adams sin, to take off which we have need of the righteousnesse of Christ imputed, but we have drawn upon our selves the filthinesse and pollution of sin, to take away the power whereof, only the grace, holinesse, and inherent righteousnesse of Christ imputed to us doth avail: and as the first Adam was the Author and conveyer both of the guilt, filthinesse, and punishments of sin to his posterity; so Jesus Christ the second Adam conveighs the life of grace into all his. As the first Adam was the author to communicate natural life, as he was made a living soule; 1so the second Adam did communicate the spiritual life of grace as he was made a quickuing spirit. From the first Adam by natural generation and propagation, we receive corruption for corruption; so from the second Adam we receive grace for grace.